Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln Farm Association

Nancy Hanks Lincoln

Sarah Lincoln Grigsby

Thomas Lincoln

Thomas Lincoln Jr.

In his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865, a re-elected President Abraham Lincoln wanted to unify a broken nation. With the end of the Civil War within sight, many people on both sides felt anger and frustration toward their fellow Americans. Lincoln attempted to rise above the divisiveness and start the process of healing. Heralded as one of the most significant presidential speeches in American history, its meaning and eloquence still resonate with people today.

Early European settlers were drawn to the temperate climate of the eastern U.S. as spring rains and summer warmth created the perfect recipe for productive farming. Plentiful yields fed them throughout the bitter winters and were key to their survival. But in 1816, summer never came.

A lot of articles have been written about the history of the National Park Service (NPS) arrowhead emblem. Many recycle the same content and outdated information that has largely come from the NPS itself. Challenging the traditional story has revealed new sources of information—and two previously overlooked arrowhead designs—that rewrite the arrowhead origin story.

Opportunities to attend school were scarce on the frontier when Abraham Lincoln was young boy. He later said his education was acquired "by littles" and "did not amount to one year."

The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site has a nationally significant Memorial Landscape honoring the sixteenth president of the United States. The location of Lincoln’s birthplace is commemorated by John Russell Pope in a Neoclassical style Memorial Building and associated formal landscape.

The Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home is located in LaRue County, Kentucky, seven miles from Hodgensville. The landscape has features that contribute to the historic tourist site (1933-1938) and has further significance as the setting of Abraham Lincoln's formative years (1811-1816). Although the original cabin does not exist, the landscape maintains good integrity for the period Abraham Lincoln lived at Knob Creek as well as the commemoration of his early rural life.

Meet Marcos Perez and Kira Young, two American Conservation Experience members, who recently served at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Kentucky on a Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Maintenance Action Team (MAT) project. Marcos and Kira, along with others, helped remove the existing split rail fencing that is in poor condition, and replaced it with a historically accurate fence.

On April 18, 1906, the Lincoln Farm Association was created “for the purposes of honoring and perpetuating the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the taking and holding of 110 acres of his birthplace farm, and the development and maintenance of the same.” This was a monumental event due to the increasing call to preserve the legacy of Lincoln’s life.